ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was taken into custody from his residence in Islamabad.
“PTI vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has been illegally arrested once again,” the social media post on the party’s account said, adding he was taken into custody by a large contingent of police from his residence in the federal capital.
According to the PTI, Qureshi was being taken to the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) headquarters. The FIA is currently interrogating incarcerated PTI chief Imran Khan in a case related to a diplomatic cable that reportedly went missing from his custody and which he has for long presented as evidence of a “foreign conspiracy” to remove him as the prime minister.
According to PTI General Secretary Omar Ayub, Qureshi was taken into custody just as he reached home after addressing a press conference, during which the PTI vice chairman refuted reports of splits within the party and announced that they would be filing a plea in the Supreme Court against the delay in general elections.
The development came only two days after PTI chief Khan, who has been imprisoned in Attock Jail, following conviction in Toshakhana case named in a first information report (FIR) registered by the FIA under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act 1923 in the cipher case, The News reported quoting sources.
The counter-terrorism wing of the FIA had registered the case against the former prime minister — who was ousted from office after a no-confidence motion in April last year — after ascertaining his deliberate involvement in misusing the classified document following a probe.
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